Show MASH MASHERS RS INSULT tOMEN I iI i Make Practice of Insulting Women I and Girls Passing Along State Street Mashers infesting State street have for fOl a long time been a source of an annoyance annoyance annoyance to unprotected women and girls The police have been unable to drive them from the street because the women who have been insulted are unwilling un unwilling unwilling willing to appear appeal in the police court to prosecute their tormentors and be because because because cause the mashers mash rs are too wary to ap approach approach approach women when there Is a police policeman policeman policeman man in sight Complaint is also made of young oun hoodlums who insult women who Vho are accompanied by escorts In some cases they have met with summary punish punishment punishment punishment ment but in most instances men who are escorting the th women refuse to en engage engage gage hase in street brawl brawls not wishing to Involve respectable women In street scenes and because the young oung toughs usually go about in gangs making it ita ita ita a rather risky matter to attempt to chastise e one of them The Herald has received the fol following following following lowing letter on the subject of State Stale street roughs I wish to bring to the notice of the public that State street from front First South to Fourth South Is infested with gangs of young oung rowdies who are arc out for the purpose of insulting every wo woman woman woman man old and young who happens to pass Even having haing an escort does docs not pro protect protect lect the women wom A young man escort escorting escorting ing a lady could be Involved in three or four fights in going a block If he undertook to resent the Insulting re ro remarks remarks marks of rowdies The offenders are cunning enough eno gh to see that no police pollee policemen men meri are Bre in sight when they become offensive They walk the street in pairs or in small sm 11 crowds being too cowardly to annoy anney passers when alone They would not dare dace to insult a re respectable respectable man I would like tike to suggest that some of the plain plainclothes plainclothes plainclothes clothes men keep an eye on State street so as to catch some of these offenders and make an example of them |